# It's "Ride Your Bike To Work Week"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104 "2015-05-15T13:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/1 "2015-05-15T13:17:28Z")
Don’t know if this is a national thing or local, but I’ll be goddamned if it isn’t raining and snowing here locally! :rolleyes: In fact, the forecast is for pretty crappy weather all week. No good deed goes unpunished. Some charity organization is offering a free pancake breakfast for people who are riding to work. Which would be great, I suppose, if you worked right next door! Oh yeah. B. B. King died, too. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/2 "2015-05-15T13:29:54Z")
Great. It would take me 10 hours to bike to work. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/3 "2015-05-15T14:20:51Z")
It’s “ride your bike to work decade” where I live. 😃 And yeah, sad about BB. Saw the news in the last week about his declining health and his family. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/4 "2015-05-15T14:27:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Great. It would take me 10 hours to bike to work. You had better get going then! ---
**Author:** ![desertmonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/5 "2015-05-15T15:47:27Z")
Every year I’m on vacation for this; I don’t plan it that way, it just happens. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/6 "2015-05-15T16:25:19Z")
It just occurs to me that its Friday. 😕 Why is the news reporting this today? Doesn’t a work week normally start on Monday? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/7 "2015-05-15T16:42:21Z")
Clearly it took the guy that wrote the article four days to get to work on his bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/8 "2015-05-15T17:28:44Z")
Apparently Bike To Work Week and Bike To Work Day varies from place to place ([Wikipedia cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike-to-Work_Day)). Today is Bike To Work Day in my city. I did bike to work today (2.2 miles one way), plus at a credit union along my way they had a bike event with free breakfast and giveaways. Picked up some free reflective ankle bands and Cliff bars. I’m trying to bike to work at least twice a week for Bike Month. Hopefully I can keep it up even after that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/9 "2015-05-15T17:39:48Z")
My work is 25 miles from where I live, and the only direct route from here to there is an interstate which is closed to bike traffic and cuts through an Army base where the local roads are closed to civilian traffic. According to Google Maps, it would take me about three hours to make my commute by bike and it would involve detouring through three separate areas of uninhabited, unlit rainforest. Also, I work the graveyard shift. So I think I’ll just keep on driving to work, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/10 "2015-05-15T18:24:17Z")
Great idea but not practical for me. I DO ride the bus regularly, however. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/11 "2015-05-15T22:04:16Z")
Not practical for the vast majority of people. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/12 "2015-05-16T00:01:07Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Not practical for the vast majority of people. Should probably just outlaw bicycles. Make more room for cars. Seriously, there are a ton of people in my town that could bike to work (or walk). Guess how many actually do? Not a ton. Not even close to a ton. More like, the vast majority don’t. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/13 "2015-05-16T03:44:35Z")
I bike to the T (subway) every day. My city has an excellent bike-share program, and there is a docking station right at the end of my street. Much better than the bus, and it’s nice to be out on a bike first thing in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/14 "2015-05-16T03:52:14Z")
Funny, I’ve seldom seen a steady rain like I did today. Pretty constant all day, and it actually increased between 4 and 6 pm. Why does god hate bike riders? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/15 "2015-05-16T22:42:26Z")
I’m just not fit enough to bike 64 miles in a day. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/16 "2015-05-16T23:19:02Z")
Locally we have changed this to “Bike Anywhere” - for folks who live far from work. There is still probably something you can bike to. We also are doing it over a longer period of time. Wisconsin moved “bike week” to later, because recent Mays have been cold (of course, June could be too) Brian ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/17 "2015-05-17T10:47:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Don’t know if this is a national thing or local, but I’ll be goddamned if it isn’t raining and snowing here locally! :rolleyes: > > In fact, the forecast is for pretty crappy weather all week. No good deed goes unpunished. > > Some charity organization is offering a free pancake breakfast for people who are riding to work. Which would be great, I suppose, if you worked right next door! > > Oh yeah. B. B. King died, too. Pfft. I’m an all-year round cyclist in Stockholm. Well, I have been for two years and unfortunately the last two winters have been mild, but I’ve been happily cycling to work (11km each way) in -10C and snow. I even have special winter tyres for my bike, which have metal studs. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/18 "2015-05-17T15:15:02Z")
Don’t have to worry about that, because I work at home! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/19 "2015-05-17T16:52:43Z")
I carpool. Biking not being practical, carpool will have to be my contribution. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104/20 "2015-05-17T19:37:37Z")
With the exception of a manager at a retail job that had fully equipped locker rooms with showers, everyone I’ve worked with who biked to work regularly was also the designated smelly person in the office. This is, it seems, the biggest barrier to regular bike commuting becoming feasible for most people in most parts of the country. Sweat smells bad. There’s just no getting around that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ride-your-bike-to-work-week/720104.md?page=2)